Motivation & Resources for Learning Korean

Category: Motivation

← Day #18 30-Day Challenge Home Base Day #20 → Inspiration If you’re studying Korean, noraebang is an awesome way to practice reading and pronunciation. I would go to noraebang every day if I could. — SeoulBeats.com The video above shows Benny the Irish polyglot singing a karaoke song in German as “proof” that learning […]

← Day #17 30-Day Challenge Home Base Day #19 → Inspiration Today’s inspiration comes from a guest post at the Everyday Language Learner blog by Susanna Zaraysky. Susanna is a polyglot who speaks 7 languages, has been to more than 50 countries, and has even written a book called Language is Music. Here’s a quote from the article: […]

← Day #16 30-Day Challenge Home Base Day #18 → Inspiration Another good way to improve your Korean is to memorize not just words, not just phrases and idioms, not just quotes, but full passages or poems (song lyrics and drama monologues or dialogues are also good). The following are some tips and advice for […]

← Day #15 30-Day Challenge Home Base Day #17 → Inspiration Wow! I just found this really cool video online: It shows how to text message and shorten words in Korean. Now you’ll not only be able to understand what someone else texts you in Korean or writes on Facebook, you’ll also be able to […]

← Day #14 30-Day Challenge Home Base Day #16 → Inspiration I’m sure you’ve probably seen this image floating around the Internet before: In English, correct punctuation can save a person’s life. Well, this is very similar in Korean as well. Proper spacing (띄어쓰기) in Korean can also save a person’s life. Consider the following […]

← Day #12 30-Day Challenge Home Base Day #14 → Inspiration The above video shows the importance of spelling in English. But you know, learning how to spell is also important in a foreign language you’re studying. Chinese might be the singular exception to this rule, but even in Chinese, there are stroke radicals that […]

← Day #11 30-Day Challenge Home Base Day #13 → Inspiration Learning the grammar of a target language may be daunting. More so because the grammar rules of the language you are learning may be very different from those of your mother tongue… Regardless of what experts tell you, you will not be fluent in […]

← Day #10 30-Day Challenge Home Base Day #12 → Inspiration Poor mastery of grammar would not break down communication, but scanty vocabulary would… One cannot overstate the importance of a rich word-bank in the language learning process. The following are the 7 strategies for mastering foreign vocabulary as presented by Dr. Vakunta in the video: […]

← Day #9 30-Day Challenge Home Base Day #11 → Inspiration: Lee Byung-Hun (이병헌) From the intro in the above video: He’s dominated his country’s film industry for more than two decades, starring in some 20 soap operas and more than a dozen films. From the villain in the kimchi-Western drama “The Good, the Bad, […]